Larry "Bluesman" Taylor

Larry with singer Katherine Davis, State Sen. Lakeisha Collins, and piano player Yoko Noge.

Larry Taylor celebrated his 69th birthday in his home neighborhood of Austin, West Side Chicago, with a free all ages blues jam Dec.13, 2024 at St…

Larry and the band were pleased to be chosen to close out a summer concert series featuring West Side musicians at Garfield Park Conservatory on Sept. 18, 2024. As the palm trees and ferns waved their leaves and kids scampered…

The Taylor family is part of a multi-act tribute to all genres of Chicago popular music. Of course, it would be nothing without the art of the blues, which their parents' generation brought to the big cities during the Great…

Larry and the Soul Blues Healers again made a hit with Northwest Wisconsin fans in Durand for Blues on the Chippewa fest--both outdoors at Veterans Park and at the Corral Bar.  Abraham boogied on bass with Tim Taylor, drums…

July 2024 found Larry and the Soul Blues Healers delighting seniors and younger folks at Bethel New Life, Taste of Lawndale and the Soul City Blues Fest on Chicago Avenue in Austin--where soul singer Cicero Blake was honored by friends…

Austin, the neighborhood on the farthest west of the West Side of Chicago, has at least three public libraries. The oldest, called Austin Branch at Central Ave. and Race Ave., was built in 1929--the year of the Great Depression and…

The Chicago-produced, Chicago-themed feature film The Rhythm and the Blues, was screened at the historic Lincoln Center in New York City’s African Film Festival, Saturday May 11, 2024 to a sold-out crowd. Actor Leon (The Temptations) stars as…

VOTE HERE for Larry Taylor's “I Paid My Dues,” from the Nola-Blue CD  “Generations of Blues.” You can vote every day  til the “People's Voice” song  contest ends: 11:59 p.m   https://songwritingcompetition.com/peoplesvoice

Larry and his sister Brenda Taylor and Leon the actor, were among those on hand March 4 at Chicago's CineCity viewing theater for the soft premiere of “The Rhythm and the Blues.”  Producer/Director Darryl Pitts told the enthusiastic crowd, “This…

Actor Leon and actor/musician Guy Davis capture the audience in this 1960s period film based on Larry Taylor's story about his musical family.   The feature film, in production since 2015, produced and directed by Darryl Pitts, is to be screened…